Leonhard Euler: Prolific writer, pioneering mathematician, and...

Google's today's doodle takes you back to your good ol' classroom, this time to honour the Swiss mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler on his birth anniversary. If you've missed seeing an endearing doodle for sometime now, then this one ...

Centuries after math pioneer Leonhard Euler died, the 18th century math genius is finally getting his slow clap of recognition, thanks to today's Google Doodle, which commemorates Euler's 306th birthday in memorable fashion. The parchment-like image ...

The first five prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11. A prime number is an integer, or whole number, that has only two factors — 1 and itself. Put another way, a prime number can be divided evenly only by 1 and by itself. Prime numbers also must be ...

How much of what happens in nature, so admired by scientists from Galileo to Poincaré, conforms to its known rules? And, for futurists, how much of the future is written into nature's rulebook? If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth ...

In recent years many people have had fun attributing Bacon numbers to actors, reflecting how far removed from working with Kevin Bacon they are. Edward Asner has Bacon number 1 as he made a movie with Bacon, and Elvis Presley had Bacon number 2 ...